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A. STROMBERG.

MAGHINE FOR SLIGING SUGAR CANE.

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ADOLPHUS STROMBERG, OF SUDENBUBG, NEAR MAGDEBURG, PBUSSIA,

ASSIGNOR TO THE SUDENBURGER MASOHINENFABRIK FUND EISENGIES- SEREIAKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, OF MAGDEBURG, GERMANY.

hfiACl-iiNE FOR SLICING SUGAR==CANE.

EiPflCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3%1,959, dated May18, 1886.

Application filed February 6. 1886. Serial No. 191,034.

(No model.) Patented in France October 525, 1884, No. 165,012; in

Bcgium October 25, 1884, No. 66,696, and in England October 3|, 1884,No. 14,402.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it know n that I, AnoLrHUs STROMBERG, a subject of the King ofPrussia, and residing at Sudenburg, near Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia,German Empire, have invented an Improved Machine for Slicing Sugar-Cane,(for which Letters Patent have been granted in France October 25, 1884,No. 165,012; in Belgium October 25, 1884, No. 66,696, and in GreatBritain October 31, 1884, No. 14,402,) of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in an improved ma chine for cutting sugarcaneslantwise into slices adapted to extract therefrom the saccharine juiceby diffusion, or which are subjected, instead of the undivided cane, tothe action of a roller-1nill for the purpose of ob taining a greateryield of juice.

The machine is shown on the annexed sheet of drawings by Figure 1 invertical section, and by Fig. 2 in plan, one of the hoppers 9 beingremoved. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 4 a plan, of one ofthe hoppers. Fig. 5 shows in section and to a larger scale a portion ofthe rotating disk I).

The machine consists of a frame, a, in which are mounted a verticalshaft, 0, and mechanism for rotating the same. Besides, the-said framecarries a conical receiver for the caneslices, 7c, and ahorizontalplate, 1", fixed to the top of the latter. Below the plate f is keyed onthe shaft 0 a disk, I), provided with slits, to the edges of whichcutters c, Fig. 5, are fixed. Preferably, however, the cutters are notattached to the body of the disk I), but to frames d,inserted into thesame and arranged to be easily removed therefrom.

The plate f has one or more apertures, to which are fitted inclinedhoppers g,serving to conduct the cane to the cutters. These hoppers arewith advantage constructed in the form shown by the drawings, andprovided with a partition-plateJ. The cane,introduced by hand into thesaid hoppers, presses by its weight against the disk f, and is dividedslantwise by the cutters rotating with the said disk. The slices issuefrom the machine by achute,h.

I am aware that it has been proposed to construct a slicing-machine of ahorizontal rotary disk having cutters secured thereto and one or moresuperposed vertical hoppers; but such is not the equivalent of myinvention. Such a machine is not adapted for cutting sugarcane in themanner heroinbefore described.

I am also aware that it has been proposed to construct a machine forslicing sugarcane of a disk carrying the cutters and rotating in avertical plane, the cane being carried up to the cutters between twointermittently-moving endless belts placed at an inclined angle; butthis is not the equivalent of my invention,

and I hereby disclaim any feature or features which my invention maypossess in common therewith.

I claim In a machine for slicing sugar-cane, the combination, with ahorizontal rotating disk, I), having one or more cutters, e, fixedthereto, of one or more superposed inclined hoppers, g, through whichthe cane passes by gravity, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ADOLPI-IUS STROMBERG.

W'itnesses:

HENRY SIKINGMANN, B. B01.

